English: Shingle plant; Shingle orchid; Climbing aroid.
German: Schindel-Kletterpflanze.
Clades: Tracheophytes, Angiosperms, Monocots, Commelinids, Alismatales, Araceae.
Region: Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, parts of Australia.
Habitat: tropical, lowland and montane rainforests.
Content: calcium oxalate crystals
Use: ornamental, for indoor vertical gardens, mounted on wooden planks or moss poles.
Other: Exhibits striking heteroblasty—its juvenile phase displays a flat "shingling" habit tightly overlapping surfaces, while mature plants detach from the support to form massive, deeply fenestrated (split) adult leaves.

BotanyType: evergreen climbing liana, grows as a high-climbing liana tightly adhering to vertical tree trunks or rock faces.; epiphyte.
Root: Specialized thick aerial roots that function primarily to glue and anchor the stem tightly against flat surfaces.
Stem: Robust, long-creeping to climbing stems with distinct nodes and long internodes in the juvenile phase.
Leaves: juvenile leaves are flat, asymmetric, heart-to-oval shaped, and overlap like roof shingles; mature leaves grow much larger and develop dramatic splits or perforations.
Inflorescence: dense, cylindrical spadix; enclosed by a deciduous spathe.
Flowers: small, reduced, bisexual or unisexual; lacking petals, crowded densely along the spadix.
Pollination: by specialized insects, small beetles or flies.
Fruit: fleshy; multi-seeded berries; along the spadix.
Seed: tiny; adapted for distribution by tropical wildlife or rain wash.
Dispersion: by animals; by rain.